~Crimes and Paybacks~

A/N: This a Christmas Shandy fic. I went with the idea from the end of episode 418, of Sharon, Rusty, and Gus having Christmas dinner at Andy's daughter, Nicole's house. It's slightly canon but I went above and beyond Duff's slow burn. Though I like the old-fashioned way Sharon and Andy are taking their relationship, this fic kind of raged itself into more of a burning blaze of its own.

Disclaimer: I own nothin' involved with Major Crimes...nothin'

They were in the kitchen finishing up the dishes. "You really didn't have to help clean up, Sharon. You are our guest," Nicole said as she reluctantly took the last plate from her dad's girlfriend and set it into the dishwasher. She knew it was a useless argument to have since the moment she had started clearing the table. Nicole figured out from the look her dad gave her that she should stop trying on insisting that Sharon sit and relax.

Her only response was, "I'll clear and you load the dishwasher. That way it will get done faster." Sharon said as she walked into the kitchen with a pile of plates. Andy had rolled his eyes at Nicole as if to say it's a losing battle just go along with it, as Sharon came back into the formal dining room for another load of dirty dishes. She stopped when she noticed Andy and Nicole sharing a look. Glaring at Andy before turning to his daughter, "I know how it can be to load a dishwasher the way you want it to be." Ignoring the silence from the others in the room Sharon picked up another handful of cups and silverware, turned and left.

Nicole closed the dishwasher after adding the soap, hit the start button and leaned against the counter. "You didn't have to help, but you were right it did go quicker. Another thing you were right about is that the boys have no idea on how to do the dishes or have a clue on how to load the dishwasher properly. Not even Dean."

Sharon laughed and said, "Oh, believe me, I know all about that. Don't give up hope, Rusty finally got it down pat."

"How long did that take?" Nicole inquired, hoping it wasn't a long time.

She dried her hands on the dishtowel, hung it on its hook and headed out of the kitchen. "Hmmm, why don't we go see what our boys are up to?"

Nicole quickly followed after Sharon, "really, it was that long?" After getting no reply she figured out that this was another one of the losing battles. So she changed the subject as they watched the boys playing in the living room with her dad, Dean and whom she was now considering her boys Uncle Rusty along with his friend Gus. Whatever they were playing it looked to Nicole that Grandpa Andy was losing. "You didn't have to get them gifts. Just all of you being here was enough."

Leaning against the back of Andy's chair Sharon glanced at the cards in his hand then at Nicole, through a smile she happily said, "children are what Christmas is all about and we had fun picking out gifts for your boys." As she spoke she held up four fingers. "Uncle Rusty can't wait to start teaching both the little ones how to play chess with the new board he got them."

"Grandpa Andy, do you have any four's?" A sweet innocent voice asked and they all watched as Andy reluctantly handed over his four. The youngest didn't look at his cards again, but at Sharon before asking, "Um…Grandpa, do you have any two's?"

His eyes widen and he threw down his two. As the boy laid down the matching two beside it, Andy saw a huge smile on his face, but it wasn't meant for him. He followed the boys sparkling gaze to behind him, just in time to see Sharon wink at the boy. "Hey, wait a minute here. What's going on?" He questioned as he held the few card he had left in his hands close to his chest. "I think you better go sit over there, next to your accomplice." Andy pointed to an empty spot on the couch next to the laughing little boy. "I am in complete shock that a captain in the LAPD would be cheating at Go Fish."

Sharon leaned down, kissed Andy on the cheek, then walked over to Tony to pick him up and set him on her lap. "I'm sorry and I'm guilty as charged. My only defense is there is no way I could resist such an adorable face." She kissed the boy's head and whispered, "don't worry I know all your grandpa's cards."

"I can hear you, you know that, right?" Andy tried not to laugh as everyone else was laughing.

"Oh, I know," Sharon, said casually.

Andy's eyes were glued on her as he spoke, "You also know that somehow I have no matches and that I'm losing?"

Sharon was probably enjoying seeing Andy pout about losing at a kid's game a bit too much. She tried not to smile too big as she acknowledged, "correct, I know that too."

As little Tony danced around the living room after winning the game. Sharon felt Andy's eyes still on her. She looked across the room to meet his. She found his deep brown eyes glaring at her. Though it wasn't a harsh glare, it was more of an I'll pay you back later look. She shrugged her shoulder at Andy and caught the young boy as he leaped onto her lap and hugged him tight. Whatever his payback or punishment would be she'd happily pay it. It was worth it for the smiles and hugs she got from his grandson. Also seeing Andy stew about losing made it even better.

The day was spent with the family switching off from games that the children wanted to play. It had been non-stop fun and laughter, but the last half hour had quieted down as Uncle Rusty was teaching the boys the rules of chess. The adults took this time to enjoy a moment to sit back, watch and relax. Nicole opened her eyes and lifted her head off Dean's shoulder taking in the room around her she asked, "have you seen my dad?"

Rusty paused in between explaining once again the moves that the horsey, as the boys called the knight, can make to questioned and glanced around too. "Come to think of it I haven't seen Sharon in a while, either."

Gus sat quietly in the chair next to Rusty but he couldn't hide the guilty look on his face as everyone left in the room looked at him. "What?"

Rusty leaned closer to Gus and asked, "Do you know where my mom is?"

Gus swallowed hard, he was new to all this. He hadn't been around a family in a long time and the family he used to have were not like this one at all. They would have been punished for lesser things than not answering a question, but he knew he wasn't in that kind of situation anymore. So when Rusty asked again, he replied, "the Captain said something about a stain on her shirt and that she was going to the bathroom to put some cold water on it. Though, I didn't see a stain. A few minutes later the Lieutenant mumbled about helping her and followed her upstairs."

Rusty sank back in his chair and brought his hands to cover his face and let out an, "ugh."

Sharon had been looking in the mirror trying to find the gravy stain Andy had said was on her shirt when the door opened and the man she was thinking about walked in. She hadn't bothered to lock the door since she wasn't using the facilities, but was still surprised as Andy slipped in behind her. Looking at him in the mirror, Sharon questioned, "What are you doing and I thought you said there was a stain on my shirt?"

He took the short steps towards her, his eyes never leaving hers in their reflection. Sharon was wearing her glasses but Andy wanted to see straight into the depth of her sparkling green eyes with no barriers, so he reached around her and slipped them off. As he watched her eyes widen he freely admitted, "Ah, yeah guess I lied about that." In her shock, Andy closed the gap between them until she was pinned between him and the counter. He carefully set her glasses carefully beside the sink so he could slide his hands down her arms, to her waist and settled on her hips. "Well, if you can cheat at Go Fish. I can lie about a stain on your blouse. I needed to give you your sentence in private, anyways."

Sharon turned in his arms, which took some doing since he left her with no space. She placed her hands on Andy's chest holding him back, though she put no effort into it. They both knew if she said stop, he would without question. "Sentence? You're just a bad loser. I was paying you back for all the times you bragged about winning while staying with me."

Andy's smoothed his hands around Sharon's hips, down her lower back to rest on her backside and tugged her up against him. "I do miss those days of staying with you and I miss beating you at Scrabble. A game, I might add that was practically made for you."

"You were making up words or cheating somehow." Sharon pulled at his tie to add emphasis on how he could beat her at her favorite game. "Besides, I didn't really cheat, you were holding your cards out where anyone could see them."

"None of those words were made up, they were all in the dictionary. You did take the time to look them all up." He smirked because it was Sharon's turn to pout. "Must be that all my medical leave from work and playing Words With Friends paid off." Not being able to help himself, Andy kissed her turned down lips. As he pulled back he was smiling to see a smile on her beautiful face again. "Oh, and Sharon no one could see my cards unless a certain person of interest happened to be standing right behind me with intent on looking at them with a single purpose in mind." Andy grew more serious, "it's as the saying goes, don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

Sharon laughed loud and rolled her eyes before laying her head on his chest, "wow, Andy that is so completely cheesy."

He stepped back to admire her from head to toe. He loved when her cheeks and eyes glowed when she laughed. Slowly he lifted his heated eyes back up to her now darker green ones. Andy could see she was feeling exactly what he was feeling. "I agree, Sharon it is, but it's very true in this incident."

"You do seem to be taking the," she held her hands up to do air quotes with her fingers, "Go Fish," incident as you called it a bit too seriously." Her smile grew bigger the more intense his face became.

"All crimes are serious. I would think you of all people would know that." Andy was trying to keep a straight face as he kept going on about the silly card game, which he really didn't care about. He just wanted a reason to be as close to her as possible. "You did freely admit to cheating, did you not?" Andy held her tighter as he whispered in her ear, "the sentence for your offense…will be…time spent in my arms." With each pause, Andy left a trail of kissing on her neck. He felt Sharon shiver in his arms when his tongue traced along the pulse point, from her shoulder to her ear.

Moving her hair to one side Sharon gave him better access. Though she knew they couldn't go too far, but being in Andy's arms just felt so nice. After a moment she found some clarity and said breathlessly, "Andy, we are in your daughter's bathroom and our family is downstairs." Sharon looked around him to the door and noticed it was already locked. '"Beside you used false reasoning to get me in here, maybe we can work out a deal?"

Andy lifted his head and smiled at her use of the word "our." He knew family meant a lot to Sharon and it meant even more to him that she considered his family hers too. She had a way to bring out feelings that he had buried long ago. Sharon Raydor helped him be in a family again. Andy could feel his chest tightening as he thought about how much he cared for the woman in his arms. Knowing that the others would notice them both gone soon, he ran his hands up and down her back as he shook his head and laughed, "you and your deals. The truth is, besides this being a valuable lesson today, I haven't had any alone time with you in what feels like forever. I miss you." Andy confessed as he brought her against him for another passionate kiss.

There was no way Sharon could resist him. Andy's kisses always caused her brain go to blank. That was one of the many things she loved about him. He helped slow down her over-thinking mind and let her enjoy the moment they were in. He taught her that she didn't always have to be planning what would happen next. While she was thinking about her over-thinking, it took her a minute to realize Andy was lifting her up. Through the silk red dress, she was wearing Sharon felt the coolness of the bathroom granite countertop as he set her down on it. It caused her to let out a gasp into Andy's mouth from the chill it sent through her.

Sharon had no complaints as he took advantage of it and deepened their kiss. With her hands sliding under his jacket, up his shoulder, and under his suspenders she twisted them around her hands pulling him flush up against her body. Causing chest to meet chest, core to meet core, center to meet center. As their breathing became one they needed to pull back to let oxygen enter their lungs. Between a pant, Sharon whispered in Andy's ear after she licked the sensitive lob, "we really shouldn't be doing this here in your daughter's house." She was trying to be the voice of reason though it was very hard at the moment.

"Doing what? Where?" Andy questioned as his hands run through her thick tresses.

She felt the red angel hair clip that Andy had given her for Christmas last night slip out of her partially pinned up hair and clattered into the sink. As her hair was falling around them her first thought was it better not be broken or he's buying her a new one. Sharon's next thought was great, how was she going to explain her hair to everyone now? Sharon leaned back on to her elbows and took a few deep breaths to try and slow down her breathing. With her legs still wrapped around Andy's waist, Sharon tightened her thighs and in a husky voice, she stated, "strange this doesn't feel like a payback for my crime. Actually, it feels more like a reward." With one hand she pulled the red dress higher up to expose more of her leg.

With a growl, Andy was instantly leaning over her and kissing her already swollen lips. His hands were slowly moving Sharon's red dress up even higher when they heard, "Grandpa, aren't you gonna play with us?"

Sharon quickly used his shoulders to pull herself up into a sitting position. Though she could tell from the sound Andy's grandson was still downstairs, it still startled her. "Oh my God, this is horrible." At his laugh of her embarrassment she swatted his arm, "Andy really, it's your fault you make me forget about everything else when you kiss me."

"Nice to know I make you lose control. Maybe we can make that plea agreement now? Because have no doubt that we will finish this later." With that, Andy stood up straight, helped Sharon off the counter and set her on her feet. Once she had her balance he adjusted his tie and ran his fingers through his hair to fix where her fingers had messed it up.

Smiling at her as he watched her try to right her dress and seeing that her hair was still tousled. It was now ruffled and framing her face since she hadn't put the sides back up yet and it was just the way he liked it. Andy threaded his hands through her hair and held her there while he kissed her again. He stepped away from her at the impatient voices calling, "Grandpa? Hurry up."

Without looking away from her, Andy called out to his grandsons, "I'll be right down." He gave Sharon another quick kiss then told her, "guess I've got to head back down there. I'll stall them for a little bit for you." He reached around Sharon and picked up the angel hairclip that he had caused to fall out of her hair. After inspecting it to make sure it wasn't broken he placed it in her open palm.

She held it against her chest as she watched Andy tuck in his shirt. Sharon blinked a couple times. Had she done that? Had she pulled out his shirt in her state of passion? She didn't remember. Andy straightened his red suspenders and winked at her before he left the bathroom.

Sharon let out a breath she didn't to realize she was holding. Turning to the mirror to see what kind of state she was in, she let out a moan at the site of her hair and her swollen lips. She lifted her fingers to them; they still tingled from Andy's mouth on hers. "Stop it," she said out loud. She needed to look presentable, not daydreaming about what just happened or what had almost just happened. Sharon completely let herself get carried away. Here, she was a guest in her boyfriend's daughter's house and she acted like a lovesick teenager, that couldn't get enough of him. What that man did to her, she didn't know. What she did know is that she found him irresistible and it was nice to let herself go like this.

Attempting to try and arrange her hair like it was before Andy joined her wasn't easy. As Sharon slipped her glasses back on she knew the real problem she faced now was how mortifying it will be to think everyone downstairs knew what was happening between Andy and her up here.

Finally making her way into the living room, it was a relief to see everyone was now helping set up the train set Andy and she had gotten the boys for Christmas. Nobody was paying any attention to her. Sharon didn't really care if it was on purpose or not, she was just grateful to Andy that he kept them busy like he said he would.

Rusty had been the only one daring enough to make eye contact with her. He rolled his eyes at her, as she got closer. When she sat next to her son on the couch he pointed at her head and quietly asked, "new hairstyle?" Rusty's knowing smirk earned him a Darth Raydor glare.